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Blogs

Blogs are submitted from NHS-R Community members.

Photo of three women collaborating with laptops. Attributed to WOCinTechChat.com

The importance of community in NHS data science

NHS-R

Graphic of a laptop with stylised analytics on the screen.

Predictive Analytics within healthcare - Random Forest models for predicting length of stay

Predictive Analytics

Machine Learning

dplyr

SQL

NHS-R Community GitHub Actions - spelling

GitHub Action

Photo of two brick walls facing each other and with perspective seem to be closer to each other at the furthest point

Creating synthetic data using the synthpop package

Data

Two stacks of paper side by side filling the height of the image

CQC directory data vignette

Data

Image of a big red button with the word 'help'

How to ask for help

NHS-R

R tips

Photo of the NHS-R/NHS.pycom image projected on the Cricket large screen at Edgbaston

NHS-R/NHS.Pycom conference 2023 my experience of the event

Conference

Pablo Leon-Rodenas

Screenshot of the settings page on GitHub

Publish on GitHub

GitHub

RMarkdown

Quarto

Recoding an NA and back again

R tips

Screenshot of the R code to create a tibble used in the blog

Showcasing a function - `separate()`

R tips

Building a Quarto website for NHS-R Community

Reflections

Photo of a meeting with a laptop, pad and paper and a coffee mug.

Navigating the Data-Driven Frontier: Insights from an NHS-R Committee Member

Committee

Prajwal Khairnar

What is a “proper” data scientist anyway?

NHS-R

Photo of a meeting with a laptop, pad and paper and a coffee mug.

Coffee and Code

NHS-R

Simon Wellesley-Miller

Notes used to coordinate the unconferencing events

What was the “Unconference”?

Conference

NHS-R Community needs help

NHS-R

AphA blog – August 2023

NHS-R

July Blog

NHS-R

AphA June Blog

NHS-R

NHS-R newscast 25th May 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

NHS-R newscast 20th July 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

The data science assembly

NHS

AphA blog – May 2023

NHS-R

SQL

Photograph of a computer screen with R code

RStudio and Git – selecting many files

RStudio

Git

AphA April 2023 Blog

NHS-R

Photograph of a computer screen with R code

Code snippets – 2 scale y axes in {ggplot2}

ggplot2

R tips

White numbers scattered

Code snippets – first(), last() and nth() {dplyr} functions

dplyr

R tips

Photograph of writing

Code snippets – regular expressions

Strings

R tips

A roundup from the 2022 NHS-R Conference – Part 2

Conference

A roundup from the 2022 NHS-R Conference – Part 1

Conference

Photo of taxis moving very fast so appears in streaks of colour

Fuzzy joining tables using string distance methods

Strings

tidyverse

Guest blogger – ChatGPT

NHS-R

Podcast

NHS-R newscast 16th January 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

Photograph of a library with an elaborate staircase

Reflections on the NHS-R Community Conference

Conference

Heart rate graph

NHS-R Workshop: Development and validation of clinical prediction models using R

Modelling

Posit + NHS-R: a Perfect Partnership!

NHS-R

Conference

NHS-R newscast 28th October 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

Photograph of open envelopes

A dbplyr-based Address Matching Package

dbplyr

Addresses

Photograph of writing

Using RMD for academic writing

RMarkdown

NHS-R newscast 15th August 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

NHS-R newscast 6th July 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

A board with numbers that move mechanically to change

The ‘nhsnumber’ package and the joy of sharing your niche

NHS

Package

Photo of confetti

New year, new laptop, new library location, new version of R!

R tips

Alignment cheatsheet

ggplot2

tidyverse

Visualisations

Success story - Dr William Bryant, Senior Data Scientist, GOSH

Reflections

Success story - Kate Cheema, Director of Health Intelligence, British Heart Foundation

Reflections

Success story - Dr Lydia Briggs, Data Scientist, GOSH

Reflections

Close up photo of a typewriter with the words 'stories matter' printed on a page

NHS Low Income Scheme

golem

shiny

html

Accessibility

Scrollytell

Join the fun! Join NHS-R

NHS-R

Mohammed Amin Mohammed

Using R to create column charts featuring 95% confidence intervals

Statistics

tidyverse

ggplot2

Public Health

What a NHS-R Community Conference it was – simply wow!

Conference

Designing my first Shiny dashboard

Shiny

Functions

tidyverse

base R

GIS

zoo

plotly

Pablo Leon-Rodenas

NHS-R Community Conference: view from the The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

Personal experience

Tracking and getting download statistics for your R packages

Packages

Functions

Lists

tidyverse

Optimising dplyr

dplyr

data.table

tidyverse

Using {sf} to calculate catchment areas

GIS

ggplot2

The Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) Programme – the future of analytics for health, social care and policing?

Discrete Event Simulation

Can we rely on synthetic data to overcome data governance issue in healthcare?

Synthetic dataset

Data

base R

Software licensing

NHS-R

Learned from Community

NHS-R

Discrete Event Simulation

Nujcharee Haswell

A thank you note to NHS-R Community

NHS-R

Two-Way Business Intelligence – Partnering Shiny and SQL to Capture Insights in Performance Reporting

SPC charts

Statistics

Shiny

SQL

Christopher Reading-Skilton

Hexitime is shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2021

NHS-R

The NHS-R Community and Hexitime – Our 1st month of collaborating

NHS-R

NHS-R Community Team

NHS-R Community Conference – organisers’ perspective

Conference

NHS-R Community Team

NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…

Conference

NHSr – Rguably the Best Conference in the World

Conference

Announcing a new NHS-R + Hexitime partnership

NHS-R

Mohammed A Mohammed

NHS-R Book Club

NHS-R

Nujcharee Haswell

Member profile - Robin Hinks

Personal experience

Annotating SPC plots using annotate with ggplot

SPC charts

Statistics

Christopher Reading-Skilton

We need you: share your COVID-19 work on NHSE/I’s regular mini-huddle series

Covid-19

Forecasting R (Virtual) Workshop – the pupil’s perspective

Forecasting

{phsmethods}: an R package for Public Health Scotland

Packages

Photo of an old typewriter with the paper ready to be typed on

Building the ONS mortality dataset

Data

Packages

Training

dplyr

Functions

Loops

Web scraping

SPC Charting in R

SPC charts

Statistics

Christopher Reading-Skilton

Our first ever NHS-R webinar!

NHS-R

Towards open health analytics: our guide to sharing code safely on GitHub

GitHub

NHSRdatasets meets runcharter

Data

Packages

Run charts

Statistics

John MacKintosh

Don’t Repeat Yourself!

Functions

Data

How NHS-R Community do The Apprentice…

Personal experience

Training

Forecasting R

Forecasting

Bahman Rostami-Tobar

The first ever train the trainer class 2019

Training

Mohammed A Mohammed

NHS-R Community Conference II

Personal experience

Welcome to Leeds

Personal experience

A new kid on the NHS-R block

Personal experience

NHS Number Validation

NHS

Packages

The NHS-R Conference 2019

Conference

Mohammed Amin Mohammed

NHS-R Community datasets package released

Packages

Data

How R changed me as an analyst

Personal experience

Dygraphs

dygraphs

dplyr

base R

Exact Matching in R

R tips

Statistics

data.table

Data

SQL Server Database connections in R

SQL

A London rail travel ticket

Count of working days function

Functions

Introduction to Funnel Plots

Statistics

ggplot2

base R

rforhealthcare.org – A free online resource for all your R related healthcare needs

Resources

Moving on with the plan… And using R to do it! My personal experience…

Personal experience

Format ONS spreadsheet

R tips

dplyr

Screenshot of the England STPs maps with average bed occupancy during winter 2018/19 coloured

Using R to track NHS winter pressures

NHS

ggplot2

dplyr

base R

Data

Animated Population pyramids in R: part 1

base R

Visualisations

tidyverse

ggplot2

Population

Anastasiia Zharinova

Animating a Graph Over Time in Shiny

R tips

shiny

A run chart is not a run chart is not a run chart

Run charts

Statistics

A simple function to create nice correlation plots

Functions

Statistics

Roadmap to collaborative working using R in the NHS: Part I- Workflows

Workflow

From script-based development to function-based development and onwards to Package Based development: part 2

Packages

Functions

But this worked the last time I ran it!

Packages

Debugging

Public Health

Local Public Health joins the paRty

Reflections

Public Health

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

Conference

John MacKintosh

NHS-R Conference: was it worth it?

Conference

Wordcloud with cloud, plot and useful being the largest so most frequent

Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation in R

Text Mining

Conference

NHS-R Community Conference: My experience of the day

Conference

From script-based development to function-based development and onwards to Package Based development

Functions

A simple function to install and load packages in R

Packages

NHS open source public datasets – creating realistic synthetic datasets

Synthetic dataset

Data

How to extrapolate data from data

Strings

5 R logos with the capital R and circle behind going from small to large in size.

Evolution of the R user

Reflections

Seb Fox, Julian Flowers and Georgina Anderson, Public Health England.

Even Simpler SQL

R tips

SQL

dplyr

Patient Flow

John MacKintosh

Simpler SQL with {dplyr}

R tips

SQL

dplyr

Patient Flow

John MacKintosh

Diverging Dot Plot and Lollipop Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Histogram with auto binning in ggplot2

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Why Government needs sustainable software too

RAP

NHS

Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

R tips

ggplot2

base R

The :: operator

R tips

R studio shortcuts

R tips

Importing and exporting Data

R tips

The joy of R

Reflections

Public Health

Pareto Chart in ggplot2

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Aiming for a wrangle-free (or reduced) world

Reflections

NHS meets R

NHS-R

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